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Word: cellars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stockholm, beneath a quiet house, there is a deep, vaulted cellar, where candles substitute warmly for the sunlight. This is a favorite refuge for Swedes, not from bombs, but from the menaces of life in general. Rich, excellent food is served, limited only by the lack of imagination in Swedish cooking; beer flows from great casks, unfortunately diluted by edict of a government which believes that drinking can be curbed by alcohol-content laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDE N: The Well-Stocked Cellar | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...restaurant is called The Golden Peace, and it represents perfectly the Swedish idea of the good life. Swedes like the open air and the magnificent shores of their lakes, but politically and spiritually most of them live in a well-protected, well-stocked cellar, with "Peace" hopefully written over the entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDE N: The Well-Stocked Cellar | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Cables will eventually spread out from the cellar of the Germanic Museum to all the important buildings in the University. This will have to be done piecemeal as the necessary materials are either scarce or under government priorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Construct Communications Center | 10/20/1951 | See Source »

...Vernon. Washington overextended himself in land and fell in debt for a while. But he skillfully rotated his crops at Mt. Vernon, grew wheat when others were growing tobacco, and kept on prospering. He was able to ride in a coach & six and to lay down in his cellar pipes of fine Madeira and the "best Lisbon wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mt. Vernon to Valley Forge | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Green Eyes | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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